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Free adult education critical thinking resources
Maze Run Escape Room Logic Puzzle Game Challenge Activities Freebie Pack No Prep
Maze Run Escape Room Puzzles provide a fun brain boosting challenge for students. Great for School Party Activities, Puzzle Competitions, Extra Credit, Individual or Team Building Activities! These escape room games are designed to help exercise problem-solving, critical thinking, and focusing skills. It is a great way to keep the students busy and help build/improve essential skills. There are 4 Fun Unique Levels of the Maze Run to choose from. Each level is different and as the levels increase
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Practice Reading Graphs: USA Today FREEBIE, DISTANCE LEARNING, EASEL ACTIVITY
*** UPDATED FOR DISTANCE LEARNING***Assign to your students via Google Classroom, Answer boxes are already provided for your students to input their answers. The Answer Key has been removed in the digital activity, but you can still access it in the pdf version.This digital activity presents 4 graphs from the popular "USA Today Snapshots" to provide practice with all aspects of reading graphs (3 bar graphs, 1 pie chart) - interpreting data, drawing conclusions, recognizing sources, etc. Th
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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Marshmallow Challenge Handout
This FREEBIE includes a color and black and white handout to provide to teams of students engaging in the Marshmallow Challenge activity. This activity is great to use as an icebreaker or to engage students in critical thinking, cooperative learning, and innovative thinking. It can also be used to reinforce basic principles of physics or as a fun math activity involving measurement.
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Word Search Mini Escape Room Puzzle Game Pack - No Prep Easel Activity Freebie
This fun mini-word search escape room activity is great for individual skill building or team building. This quality word search escape room puzzle is designed to be as one escape room activity or can be combined with other escape room activities that may work with this type of puzzle.A great way to expand your escape room adventure! It is a 3 in 1 Puzzle Escape Room. A fun way to help exercise students’ problem-solving, critical thinking, and focusing skills. Great to help keep students busy wh
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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SMART Goals Worksheet, Smart Goal Template, Setting Goals, SMART Goals
*Note: You will be taken to our site, ClassCrown.com, for full download of this product.*Follow us on TpT for more great FREE resources: Click HereDownload FREE without TpT account here: https://www.classcrown.com/products/free-worksheets-setting-smart-goals/This SMART goal worksheet will help your students set goals that are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-bound. To learn more about helping your students set SMART goals, read our blog post here: https://www.classcrown.co
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Easy Sudoku Puzzle Freebie Starter Bundle No Prep Worksheet
This starter bundle introduces students to the world of Sudoku with fun and easy to learn 4 by 4 grid puzzles arranged in single or double per worksheet. Grayscale and Colored puzzles are included. This ready to print no prep free beginner's puzzle packet provides how-to-play instructions, fun easy-level puzzles to help spark up and exercise brain strengthening math, critical thinking, and problem solving skills. Instructions are included along with an answer key.This 4x4 Easy Sudoku Starter Bun
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Brain Benders - Riddles and Brain Teasers 2
Brain Benders - Riddles and Brain Teasers 2
If you LOVED Brain Benders 1, Brain Benders 2, Brain Benders 3,and Brain Benders 4 - you must download Brain Benders 5!!!
{10 NEW RIDDLES AND BRAIN TEASERS FOR YOUR CLASSROOM!}
It's fun to solve brain teasers and I've heard your brain is like a muscle. If you exercise it (by teasing it) you'll have a fit brain. Even if that's not true, it's still fun to solve them!
Have your students improve their problem solving abilities with these 10 brain tea
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: The Break-In
In this fun mystery activity, students have to follow the clues to figure out why criminals broke into a store, but took nothing! Why did this happen? What's the real crime? This is a great way to teach and practice critical thinking skills as your students practice their reading skills and use their logic skills.Also available as a PowerPoint presentation or Google Slides.What is a Clue by Clue Mystery?It's a great warm-up, filler, or time killer for early finishers. Students are given a myster
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
Speak Think Understand - KWL Chart
This KWL chart can be used for any age of student that can read and write. I have used it as young as first grade, but also with college students. It is designed to get students thinking about how the things we know, want to know, and have learned are connected. Coming out of the mouth, you will find a space for students to write what they already know, or can tell you about. In a thought bubble above the head, is a space for what a student might want to know, or be thinking about, but not sure
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Following Directions Activity / First Week of School Activity / Ice Breaker
The Following Directions Activity is designed to remind your students that it is important to read all directions and follow them before beginning an assignment. This is a great activity for the first week of school. I use this activity with my classes every year and ask them to promise not to discuss it with their friends until the end of the school day.Enjoy!SharhanStop by enagelearnability.com for more resources.Follow Engage Learnability on social media.Facebook: facebook.com/EngageLearnab
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Mood Meter: A Socio-Emotional Resource
Find the English version here! Find the French version here!Find the Spanish version here! Find the English digital version here!Have you joined Yale's Center for Emotional Intelligence's RULER movement?! If not, you should! They believe that "emotions drive learning, decision-making, creativity, relationships, and health." When students recognize the power of emotions, via the "Mood Meter," they help create a "more effective and compassionate society." How does it work? It's pretty simple! Intr
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Think Outside the Box Thursday
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX THURSDAY is a creative drawing activity that is so fun and engaging, your kids will be begging to do it all the time. In fact, it’s not just for Thursdays. You can easily implement the activity into your classroom any day! While thinking outside the box, kids gain so much from this activity. They strengthen their flexible thinking skills, imagine possibilities, learn to see and understand different perspectives, appreciate the work of others, and celebrate their
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Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING: 5 Self-Reflection Activities & Assignments
Get your students using Self-Reflection to improve their lives inside and outside your class! Self-reflection is an essential skill that involves examining one's actions, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors with a critical and introspective mindset. It plays a crucial role in personal growth, emotional intelligence, and overall well-being, and it really should be taught in schools as both a personal and an academic tool.This package includes five different self-assessment activities/tools/projects
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING BUNDLE
FREE! Listening Skills Podcast Activity, Listen & Learn #10, PDF & Google Drive
Students need to be able to sit and listen to a passage or short audio program, take notes, recall information, and then answer critical thinking questions about the material. To help prepare our students for this challenge, I’ve scoured the internet to find high-interest, school-appropriate podcasts that fit within one class period.In this Listen & Learn activity, students will listen to a high-quality 30-minute podcast focused on the heroic actions of Robert Smalls, a man enslaved in South
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Hink Pinks Book Freebie, a Rhyming Words Game
A Hink Pink is a rhyming word riddle. A clue is given and the student must guess the pair of rhyming words. It's a fun and hilarious way to practice rhymes with students. Example: a rotund feline would be a...fat cat! This free digital download contains the a sample of 25 hink pinks from The Original Hink Pink, a book of 275 rhyming word riddles of varying difficulty. The Original Hink Pink is an invaluable tool for homeschool or traditional classroom setting. It's rhyme time! Download now!
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1st - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Growth vs Fixed Mindset Graphic Organizer Notes & PowerPoint - FREE
THE PRODUCT Teach your middle school or high school students the difference between a growth and a fixed mindset, and why it’s important to develop a growth mindset using these engaging graphic organizers guided by a PowerPoint presentation. The presentation concludes with ideas for students to apply their skills with self-reflection writing prompts and Internet-based activities. PDF files for printing a poster and infographic also included. INTENDED AUDIENCE Growth vs Fixed Mindset is part
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
De Bono's 6 Thinking Hats Worksheet - Critical Thinking
*Note: You will be taken to our site, ClassCrown.com, for full download of this product.*Click Here to read our blog post that goes along with this worksheet.The Thinking Hats strategy is a simple way for students to approach problems and ideas from different points of view and encourages them to think below the surface. Each hat requires the thinker or group of thinkers to contemplate an issue from a different perspective.The worksheet has been designed in full, vibrant color for maximum quali
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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BLOOMS TAXONOMY Posters to be printed on any paper!
Reference these posters throughout the day to illustrate specific skills and levels of learning being utilized. Verbs are in alphabetical order (for ease when lesson planning). Great for identifying the objectives of the day in a kid friendly language. {Copyright © 2013 Literacy for Littles}
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Teaching Analogies
This PowerPoint presentation uses graphic organizers to help students understand and decode analogies. Understanding and decoding analogies is a higher level thinking skill transferable to reading comprehension, critical thinking, and creativity. Using graphic organizers to decode the analogies provides the students with the tools to make the interconnections by linking new information with information they already know. Each analogy includes visual and animated illustrations to assist the s
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Math Maze Fun Worksheet - Free
Challenge young math students with this cute math themed maze.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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let's agree to disagree - I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong!
A fun Powerpoint conversation presentation with 2 debate sheet handouts including:- rules of arguments and - arguing phrases, from a mild agreement to a strong disagreement. I’ve used this lesson successfully as:A great ice breaker for a new class An ‘emergency substitute lesson’ for those days when only a few students show up When I just know that there is little chance of concentration (too hot, too cold and miserable, too close to the end of school…etc). I usually screen the slide, wait to s
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Finish the Picture
Finish the Picture is a fun way to get your students to engage with their creative side.
This activity will teach your students to free up their own thinking and value the diversity in the room.
There are 8 pages of 'Finish the Picture' included.
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education
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FREE Distance Learning: The Chair
A 5-year-old boy pulls out a chair right when his aunt goes to sit down.The aunt falls, breaks her hip, and sues her nephew for battery! Should she win? Have your class decide!thinkLaw uses real-life legal cases to foster the development of critical thinking by taking students through the same critical thinking strategies that are taught in law school.The Chair is the ORIGINAL thinkLaw sample lesson, but has been updated to support distance learning.This download includes: - Student Materials
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Making Inferences/ Drawing Conclusions: A PowerPoint for High School Instruction
As reading becomes more complex, many high school students lose confidence in their ability to comprehend and may become reluctant, unengaged readers. Reinforcing complex reading skills for high school students gives them the tools to advance with the complexity of the texts they should master.This free PowerPoint focuses on the skills of inferencing and drawing conclusions in literature. The twenty slides present definitions and examples to show students that taking a closer look can be interes
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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